NOLA 2010 Group 1

Our goal is to facilitate community autonomy through interventions that enable social interactions within the public realm. It is our belief that through collective action and social capital, the residents of the Lower Ninth Ward will be able to circumvent barriers to resources and redevelopment. As placemakers we recognize our limited ability to determine policy and capital investments. We suggest our role as designers is to image the physical means bywhich a neighborhood can build community equity and autonomy. This will be accomplished through design proposals that would activate the public realm, allowing opportunities for concentrations of cooperative social behaviour and entrepenurial investment to occur.